Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1950
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Otto Paul Hermann Diels
Prize share: 1/2
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Kurt Alder
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1950 was awarded jointly to Otto Paul Hermann Diels and Kurt Alder "for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis"
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